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Hotel Overview

Celine Dion headlines at quintessential Vegas resort This legendary resort includes one of The Strip's main attractions: a shopping/dining/entertainment mall called The Forum Shops. Guestrooms all offer television Internet access and Palace Tower rooms feature two-person jetted tubs. An opulent pool complex supplies fun-in-the-sun, the mall offers family shows, and two casinos provide round-the-clock action.

Location

Las Vegas blvd, The Strip

Property amenities

A 23,000-square-foot health spa offers massage and body/facial treatments and contains a fitness center with an aerobics/yoga room, saunas, steam rooms, 16-person spas, relaxation rooms, and a juice-bar lounge with terrace seating overlooking the complex. A full-service business center rents cellular telephones and provides Internet access. In addition to The Forum Shops, another, smaller shopping mall, The Appian Way, features a replica of Michelangelo's David.

What to expect: A tribute to Roman opulence, Caesars Palace opened in 1966 as a destination for celebrities and high rollers. Periodic expansion adhered to the theme while sparing a garden of cypresses, statues, and pools buffering the resort from The Strip. Marble, gilt, and crystal still set the tone. Wandering gladiators, Cleopatra look-alikes, and toga-clad beauties provide photo ops. And thousands troop through The Forum Shops.

Amenity highlights: A spectacle of Roman-style grandeur featuring cypresses, palm trees, marble columns, and classical statues, the 4.5-acre Garden of the Gods supplies three pools and two spas for outdoor relaxation. The focal point is the round, 10,000-square-foot Palace Pool containing a rotunda in which stands an outsized, gilded statue of Caesar. The rectangular Neptune Pool provides 5,000 square feet of lap-swimming space. Screened from the others, the narrow, 150-foot-long Venus Pool welcomes topless sunbathers. The oval, 12-person spas offer secluded soaking behind hedges in the company of lovely statues. For-rent cabanas include television, telephone, ceiling fan, and padded lounges.

Insider tip: By going to the Caesars Palace desk near luggage carousel Number 1, guests arriving at the airport may check into their rooms while waiting for luggage to arrive.

Dining

Bradley Ogden - The celebrated San Francisco Bay Area chef prepares seasonal dishes such as hot and cold foie gras with kumquats, crispy black bass, and gnocchi with morels, asparagus, and braised veal. Contemporary decor of warm woods, fabric-draped lights, round booths.

808 - Memorializing the Hawaiian area code where chef Jean-Marie Josselin achieved fame, 808 features fare such as roast duck with lilikoi-caramel glaze under a ceiling of copper seashells.

Palm Restaurant - An outpost of the legendary New York steakhouse, this place features prime-grade beef, Italian-style veal dishes, and jumbo lobsters.

Spago - This spot replicates celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck's original casual-dining, fusion-food Hollywood restaurant with choices such as roast John Dory with shrimp couscous, blue crab salad, and lamb with baked polenta.

Chinoise - Another example of a Wolfgang Puck restaurant that outlived the Los Angeles original, Chinoise features dim sum, sushi, noodles, and Asian-accented dishes such as lobster in coconut-curry sauce.

Empress Court - This ornate, second-floor restaurant overlooks the pool complex, features Asian delicacies such as shark's fin, abalone, and bird's nests, and keeps seafood fresh in live tanks.

Hyakumi - Waitresses in kimonos and a Japanese garden. Sushi, teppanyaki, and other Japanese specialties. Asian noodles for lunch.

Neros - Intimate steakhouse serving beef, seafood, lamb, chicken, veal, and prime rib and featuring the Caesar salad, crab cakes, and chocolate soufflè.

Terrazza - Tuscan-style, traditional, and contemporary Italian fare such as pastas, risotti, grilled lamb, and seared ahi with balsamic vinegar. Terrace seating by the pool complex and inside under an elaborate dome. Fronted by a lounge offering live jazz Wednesday-Sunday.

Bertolini's - Pasta, pizza, Italian fare in casual setting, with expansive "sidewalk" seating inside The Forum Shops.

Planet Hollywood - Movie memorabilia and long American-food menu.

La Salsa - Mexican specialties and margarita bar.

Stage Deli - New York-style deli sandwiches, cheesecake, matzo-ball soup.

Entertainment

Wednesday through Sunday in the enormous Colosseum theater that features an entrance of dazzling grandeur, Celine Dion stars in an extravaganza of song, dance, and high-tech and high-theater effects called A New Day. When Dion is on vacation, headliners such as Jerry Seinfeld appear.

Under a sky-painted ceiling whose lighting varies from morning to evening, The Forum Shops mall offers shopping, dining, and entertainment amid a depiction of an ancient Roman neighborhood. Shops number nearly 100 and restaurants and cafe's a dozen. Entertainment includes a sound-light-laser show featuring Roman gods at one giant fountain and, at another, a fire-water-smoke show during which mythical Atlantis rises and falls in a 50,000-gallon aquarium while outsized, animatronic characters struggle to rule the island.

An IMAX 3-D ride, Race for Atlantis, is also located in The Forum Shops mall.

At the Shadow Bar, juggling bartenders entertain up front while topless dancers perform in silhouette behind screens flanking the bar.

Clubbers rock the night away at Cleopatra's Barge, where the dance floor is located on a floating barge.

n two casinos of different character, Caesar's Palace supplies 129,000 square feet of slots, video poker, blackjack, craps, roulette, baccarat, min-baccarat, pai gow poker, and pai gow. Included are a high-limit salon and a race and sports book offering individual flat-screen televisions and plush table seating. The hotel's original Palace Casino remains draped in crystal. The newer Forum Casino features a high ceiling, one half sleek, black, and all curves and the other half elaborately decorated in Roman classical style.

ParkPlace Connection offers free membership cards that consolidate in single accounts slot and gaming-table play at five casinos: Caesars Palace, Bally's Las Vegas, Hilton Las Vegas, Paris Las Vegas, and Flamingo Las Vegas. Members earn cash and/or comp rewards redeemable for food, drink, and hotel services and facilities. Members also receive 10-percent discounts at gift shops owned by the hotels and may charge expenditures at all five hotels to their rooms.

Recreation

Rooms

The resort offers 2,450 guestrooms in four towers. The Palace Tower is the newest and most luxurious. The Roman, Centurion, and Forum towers date back to the 1966 opening, though all have been renovated many times since. Caesars signature bathrooms have marble/brass vanities and marble tubs. All rooms provide television Internet access (via MSN TV) with a wireless keyboard.

Deluxe room
One king or two double beds. Located in the Roman, Centurion, or Forum towers. 325 square feet. Small sitting area. Bathroom with marble/brass vanity and shower/tub. High-speed television Internet access (via MSN TV). Loveseat included in king-bed rooms, upholstered chair in double-bed rooms.

Palace Tower
One king or two queen beds. Located in the newest and most luxurious Palace Tower. Minimum of 500 square feet. Marble entryway, extra-large bathroom with two-person spa tub in alcove, separate shower stall, and marble, twin-sink vanity. Crown moldings and floor-to-ceiling windows. Television Internet access (via MSN TV) with a wireless keyboard.